Well, if project Jigsaw ever ships, the (Java) platform would provide language-level support for some of this stuff. Oh! To say good-bye to the classpath for once and for all! How sweet would that be?
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:37 AM, John Lussmyer <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > So, Dependency Resolution has problems - and isn't that the whole REASON > to > > use Maven? > > No wonder I keep wondering what the point of Maven is... > > > > Dependency resolution is HARD. You only have to look at OSGi and SAT > solving > algorithms to see this stuff messes with your head. > > From my understanding, the core maven stuff does the resolution but its not > exposed very well to allow other things (like dependency:tree and > eclipse:eclipse) to re-use this logic. > > That's the problem we are suffering now. >
